Ramsar Convention

Why Ramsar is in the news?

As Sundarban Wetland is newly added to Ramsar sites in India, now it is the largest Ramsar site in India ( Earlier largest wetland site was Vembanad-Kol wetland). Sundarban wetland is the home of Royal Bengal tiger & Irrawaddy Dolphin.

What is the Ramsar Convention?

The formal name of the Ramsar convention is " Convention on the wetland of international importance".
It has two main objectives:

• Conserve and sustainable uses of Wetland
• Stopping the encroachment of wetland site

Ramsar Convention is not legally binding and it is not part of the UN. In this convention, there are Montreux Record. 

What is the Montreux record?

Some wetlands sites may be included in Montreux record, for inclusion, there are two criteria:

• It is likely to adverse ecological changes in the Wetland site. or
• There has already been an adversely ecological changed in the wetland site.

In India, there is two wetland site that is included in the Montreux Record. Sites are:

• Keoladeo National Park (Rajashtan)
• Loktak Lake (Manipur)

Ramsar sites in India

As of 2019, there is 27 Ramsar site in India. The same are arranged from north to south.

Sr no	Name	State
1	Wular Lake	J & K
2	Hokera	J & K
3	Surinsar-Mansar	J & K
4	Tsomoriri	Ladakh
5	Pong Dam Lake	Himachal Pradesh
6	Chnadartal Wetland	Himachal Pradesh
7	Renuka Wetland	Himachal Pradesh
8	Kanji	Punjab
9	Harike	Punjab
10	Ropar	Punjab
11	Upper Ganga	UP
12	Deepar Bheel	Assam
13	Sambhar Lake	Rajasthan
14	Keoladeo National Park	Rajasthan
15	Loktak	Manipur
16	Rudra Sagar	Tripura
17	East Calcutta Wetland	West Bengal
18	Sundarban Wetland	West Bengal
19	Bhoj Wetland	MP
20	Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary	Gujarat
21	Bhitarkanika Mangrove	Odisha
22	Chilika lake	Odisha
23	Kolleru Lake	Andhra Pradesh
24	Vembadad Kol wetland	Kerala
25	Point Calimere	Tamil Nadu
26	Sasthamkotta Lake	Kerala
27	Ashtamudi Wetland	Kerala

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